Barclays’ former chairman, giving evidence in a landmark London fraud trial, said he first saw a document detailing agreed fees for Qatari investors in the British bank four years after the payment was agreed.Former Barclays’s chief executive John Varley and some of his most senior former colleagues – Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath – are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation over side deals struck with Qatar during an 11 billion ...

Qatar’s Doha Tower, a spike-tipped cylinder that glows orange at night, won an award when finished in 2012 amid a Gulf-wide real estate boom, but today about half of its 46 floors are empty. The office tower, now a familiar part of the capital’s high-rise skyline, has run foul of what real estate brokers, bankers and analysts say is an oversupplied Qatar property market ahead of the 2022 World Cup that mirrors a real estate downturn in the region after a drop in oil prices. ...

Qatari media tiptoed around covering the role of former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim in their reporting of the Barclays scandal, where four former Barclays Bank executives were charged with conspiring to commit fraud by hiding £322 million of payments to Qatar in return for cash injections in 2008. Qatar Holding, part of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Challenger, the gulf state’s former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim’s private investment company, had invested more ...

Qatar has been crowned champion of the AFC Asian Cup 2019 on Friday after winning the finale with a score of 3-1 against Japan. Qatar’s first goal was scored by Almoez Ali in an impressive double kick in minute 12, and the second one was scored by Abdulaziz Hatem in minute 27. Japan followed up in the second half of the game, scoring one goal in minute 69 by Takumi Minamino. Finally, in the 83rd minute, Qatar’s forward player Akram Afif scored the third goal through a penalty kick. ...

The United Arab Emirates has filed a complaint against Qatar at the World Trade Organization saying Doha has imposed a ban on Emirati products, UAE state news agency WAM said on Tuesday. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt have imposed a diplomatic, trade and transport boycott of Qatar since June 2017 over allegations Doha supports terrorism, a charge Qatar denies. Qatar filed in July 2017 a wide-ranging legal complaint at the WTO to challenge the trade boycott by the UAE, Saudi Arabia ...

Former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani had requested a personal commission from Barclays Bank to secure Qatari investment in the bank. The details of the Qatari commission request were revealed during the proceedings of the Barclays trial. Prosecutors allege the bankers hid from public documents around 322 million pounds in secret fees paid to the Qatari investors as they fought to meet their tough demands. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecutor told the Southwark ...

The UAE has qualified for the semi-finals on Friday after winning the match against Australia in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup with a score of 1-0. In Al Ain, the UAE avenged its 2015 semifinal loss to Australia. Ali Ahmed Mabkhout pounced on a defensive blunder to claim his fourth goal of the tournament and spark wild celebrations at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium. The team's next match will be with Qatar, who qualified for the semi-finals earlier today after a 1-0 match with South Korea ...

Qatar qualified for the semi-finals after winning the match against South Korea in the quarter-finals with a score of 1-0. In Abu Dhabi, midfielder Abdelaziz Hatim hit the only goal for Qatar with a left-foot shot from outside the area in the 78th minute. South Korea’s best chance came a minute earlier when Kim Jin-su hit the post from a free kick. This was Qatar’s fifth win in this tournament after topping their group and qualifying for the quarter-finals in their match against Iraq ...

Gaza’s rulers Hamas said on Thursday they would not accept a fresh tranche of Qatari funds, accusing Israel of imposing new conditions on the money entering the blockaded Palestinian territory. The rejection of the expected $15 million raised fears of fresh tensions along the Gaza-Israel border, ahead of weekly protests on Friday. “We refuse to receive the third Qatari grant in response to the (Israeli) occupation’s behavior and attempts to evade the agreement,” Khalil al ...

The first tripartite chamber of the Saudi Specialized Criminal Court announced on Thursday a new date for a hearing on the lawsuit against the commercial firm al-Oula owned by beIN Sport, according to Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The court in a statement said that due to the absence of the three Qatari defendants, Yousef Mohammed Hassan al-Obeidli, Tarek Darwish Ali Zainal, and Mohammed Abdul Aziz Abdullah al-Subaie, and in view of the inability of the court’s competent authority to ...